Soils of Alabama

Ultisols — strongly weathered, leached soils with a clay-enriched subsoil

The state soil, Bama, ranks 22nd of 439 series here on 274,750 acres. First place goes to Luverne, an Ultisol covering 5.7% of the state’s mapped soil. Ultisols make up more than two thirds of the mapped soil (70.5%).

Atlas series mapped in AlabamaGuide: state soils and where series began